ARTnews Thursday August 14, 2025
A federal judge ruled that the government’s elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities grants was unlawful, notes Art News. After the grants were canceled in April, following extreme cuts made by DOGE, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Oregon Humanities jointly filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Oregon. U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon wrote in his decision that “the United States Constitution exclusively grants the power of the purse to Congress, not the President.”
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The Guardian Thursday August 14, 2025
Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy recently when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago. His guest was an avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. The former CNN anchor had promoted the video interview on social media as a “one of a kind interview,” but he quickly faced criticism online in response to the stunt, notes The Guardian.
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The Guardian Thursday August 14, 2025
Before the start of his country’s civil war in 2023, the figures in Sudanese photographer Hashim Nasr's images were often covered in flowers, challenging stereotypes of masculinity. Now, notes The Guardian, flowing red fabric is a common motif. “For me, red is always a representation of blood and losing people, so I tend to use this red fabric to represent our trauma,” Nasr says. His project “On War and Displacement” features a series of striking, surreal images with anonymous figures wearing traditional white Sudanese robes.
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David Schonauer Thursday August 14, 2025
"He was a valet, she was a kitchen maid and more than a century ago they met because of his passion for photography and desperate need of a warm place to use as a makeshift studio." So noted The
Guardian, which recently told the tale of Alf Edwards and Caroline Palmer, who worked at a huge English estate and, against the advise of almost … Read the full Story >>
